Qibla locator...excellent for travellers!
Posted on Thursday, 3rd January 2008 @ 5:43pm
Sincere apologies if this has already been posted on here...
Sincere apologies if this has already been posted on here...
10 October 2005
1 hour 45 min
Do you have to put your laptop facing towards a certain direction? At the present moment it is coming up totally the wrong way.
No not the gum drop buttons! – Gingy
24 June 2005
9 min 2 sec
The lines seems to be in the wrong direction...
and why does the other end of the line end up in Belgium? Last i knew the Qibla was not in Belgium.
I can handle clouds, but cant fight with an eclipse.
28 October 2005
12 hours 39 min
mine ends up somewhere in luxemburg? actually on second glance on the border of france and germany.
If i owe my bank a thousand pound im in trouble, if owe my bank a million pound my bank is in trouble.
21 November 2006
19 hours 11 min
apparently I love in a small village called Ladysmith near Minneapolis...cool.
2∞&➔
9 November 2005
2 weeks 14 hours
u love?
"ThiS WoRlD Iz A PrIsOn 4 A BeLiVeR AnD PaRaDiSe 4 A NoN-BeLiVeR.........."
24 June 2005
1 hour 17 min
I live in a village called Dervock near Ballymoney in Northern Ireland.
28 October 2005
12 hours 39 min
Yes hes been telling us about this village for a very long time indeed.
If i owe my bank a thousand pound im in trouble, if owe my bank a million pound my bank is in trouble.
13 August 2006
13 hours 40 min
It was spot on for me until I thought I'd test it by changing the position of my monitor.
28 October 2005
12 hours 39 min
No change for me i think this website is rubbish good idea but rubbish.
If i owe my bank a thousand pound im in trouble, if owe my bank a million pound my bank is in trouble.
2 August 2007
3 weeks 4 days
Showed me a place called Bryan in Texas, somewhere between Austin and Houston. When I zoomed out and followed the line, it passed just to the east of a town called Mecca about 20 miles away.
So I typed in part of my address in Manchester and it told me to pray in the direction of the airport, Terminal 2, where you can catch a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight to Jeddah. Genuinely it did.
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
James Thurber
28 October 2005
12 hours 39 min
If you type something in from the usa it points north east? like i said rubbish.
If i owe my bank a thousand pound im in trouble, if owe my bank a million pound my bank is in trouble.
9 November 2005
2 weeks 14 hours
thats cozzzzz u not typed your post code in at the toppp
it works fine 4 me
"ThiS WoRlD Iz A PrIsOn 4 A BeLiVeR AnD PaRaDiSe 4 A NoN-BeLiVeR.........."
28 October 2005
12 hours 39 min
What in the blue hell are you on about?
If i owe my bank a thousand pound im in trouble, if owe my bank a million pound my bank is in trouble.
9 November 2005
2 weeks 14 hours
you type your postcode in at the top left hand corner..............
n den it works it out....................
av tried it wid many diffrent places and it seem to be right
"ThiS WoRlD Iz A PrIsOn 4 A BeLiVeR AnD PaRaDiSe 4 A NoN-BeLiVeR.........."
28 October 2005
12 hours 39 min
Yes i can follow simple instructions i was just wondering why the hell in america it points north east.
If i owe my bank a thousand pound im in trouble, if owe my bank a million pound my bank is in trouble.
9 November 2005
2 weeks 14 hours
because belive it or not, the world isnt flat like you see in your screen. get a 3d model of the globe and then u shud realize when your in america the shortest route to mecca is north east
"ThiS WoRlD Iz A PrIsOn 4 A BeLiVeR AnD PaRaDiSe 4 A NoN-BeLiVeR.........."
28 October 2005
12 hours 39 min
You do realise that im talking about north america?
If i owe my bank a thousand pound im in trouble, if owe my bank a million pound my bank is in trouble.
2 August 2007
3 weeks 4 days
Using Google Maps and my finger I estimate perhaps 8,000km from Texas to Mecca heading east, 14,000km heading west and about 20,000km heading north north east. Even though my finger isn't calibrated, with differences that large I can't be wrong concluding that the shortest route is straight east. There is categorically no shorter distance than straight east - trace that distance in any other direction and you'll see there's no chance. I just did another experiment to see what happens if you extend that short line until it reaches Mecca or anywhere near the Middle East, and it more than encircles the world. The circumference of earth is about 40,000km so we're talking perhaps 45,000km using the Qibla locator (from Texas) and 8,000km using Google Maps. The locator, however, mentions a distance of only 12,000km, so I don't know what it's doing.
From Manchester it does seem to point in broadly the correct direction. At a glance it still misses, passing north through Iraq, but maybe the earth's curvature accounts for that.
(Now, I'm no expert on which direction you should pray in, and it may not be as simple as the shortest distance.)
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
James Thurber
26 March 2007
1 week 6 days
lol...i don't know whether to laugh or cry at some of the comments on here.
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10 October 2005
1 hour 45 min
well as seen as you cant decide i will do it for you.
Cry me a river hehehe (i think i better stop singing before it starts to rain lol).
No not the gum drop buttons! – Gingy